As reported by my wife yesterday who was listening to BBC Radio 4.

There was a feature on the increasing number of Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean and what can be done about them.

The female presenter said "we have had a number of emails on this, one from a listener on the internet from Poland who writes:
"I propose a solution, the authorities could invite me, my brother, my father in law and we could come with our hunt club and cull your boars" "

"A club?! They club them to death? That is barbaric!" said the presenter.

The other co-presentor agreed "shocking, that really is awful"

And then they moved on to another discussion!


My wife said she was in tears of laughter!

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Originally posted by UKhunter:
"A club?! They club them to death? That is barbaric!" said the presenter.

The other co-presentor agreed "shocking, that really is awful"

The kind of civilisation that those two fools conceive is worrisome; I'm proud to be a barbarian!

P.S. I've just read more attentively the initial post and I've understood it better. Really funny!!

Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... (you must sing it as many gospels end, better if you can sing like in a chorus

Please give me some information about hunt clubs.What are the design differences [weight , shape , etc] between them and ordinary clubs ?.I don't know of clubs being used here in the USA though I think there is some use in Canada.

What sort of club is best for red deer?

I've got two here, one is quite small and looks a bit like a cricket bat and the other is larger and made of carbon fibre.

I'm told it is possible to get a magnum version with a reinforced band around the bottom and that these are best for deer, is this true?

Also, I want to kill deer at 6,673 yards should I run at the deer with my club or post it to the deer via UPS?

CLUB? BABARIC? They are a bit slow realy, as I was culling the boar in that area and surrounding areas since 1999, always the same though isn`t it, when there gets a bit of interest in things, the greenies/do gooders etc all come crawling out of the woodwork, I had papers, telly companies keep ringing me up to give quotes etc, only did one t.v interveiw though (never saw it myself) and from what I heard after, they didn`t edit it to suit the do gooders after we filmed it
It`s a bit far to travel nowadays so I gave all my hunting to a friend to look after for me.

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Originally posted by john.d.m:
It`s a bit far to travel nowadays so I gave all my hunting to a friend to look after for me.

And he got a nice article about it published in Sporting Rifle. By the way John, they seem to be spreading out well and are well into Monmouthshire now.

For the Italian speaking people, here below the meanings of the word "club". I've put in evidence (red letters for the eventual presenters reading the discussion ) the probable meaning choosed by the presenters.
As hunt ignorants they think that it is possible to kill easily a wild boar with a club or a big stick ..........
n
(society)
club m inv
circolo

(weapon, GOLF)
mazza
vt
bastonare
vi
to club together
associarsi
clubs
npl
(CARDS)
fiori mpl



Maybe a big male like this:

Hmmmmm...In my rudimentary Italian...Un circolo di cacciatore con mazza cerca un circolo di cinghiale !!...Is that correct Stefano ? I just had some smoked boar hocks [osso buco] with white beans and onion !! Do they still eat "camel soup" for Christmas in Milano ? Happy Holidays !

mete,
is better to say
il cacciatore polacco ed i suoi parenti vengono con le loro mazze da caccia a ridurre il numero dei cinghiali
The Polish hunter and his relatives come with them hunt clubs (mazza) to cull the wild boars.

Well we can stay here analyzing the best caliber and lenght and measures and weights that make them really effective, but your two qastronomic notes make me curious because in Milan bovine hocks are one of ours citizen gastronomic prides. If you want I'll give you the recipe, but not now, it is too difficult for me.

What is the " camel soup"? describe it to me please, because I porbably know it with another name ..... also because that it is difficult that a milanese like me do not know a traditional Christmas dish

Stefano, I've made Osso Buco Milanese with Risotto all my life -I could do it in my sleep ! My Boar dish was simple - Soak beans till soft - add smoked boar hocks [domestic hocks will work fine too] add chopped onion.Simmer until meat falls off bone ,remove meat , disgard bone, most of skin, chop remaining meat ,return to pot.You could add soffrito [chopped carrot and celery if desired]. ....I hope you can understand this as I will put it in American !!! The Three Wise Guys [the ones who bring presents to little baby Jesus ] are greens, they don't drive cars , they ride camels.As I understand it was the practice in Milano to leave food for the camels. This consisted of a piece of bread in a bowl of water -'camel soup' [for the camels not soup made from camels !!] Buon Natale !! Roberto [mete]

We call them Tre Re Magi, that can be badly translated as The Three Kings Magician.
And theyr bodies lied for centuries in Milan, In a monumental tomb in the parish church where I went when I was a boy for catechism, where I had the First Communion and the Confirmation.

Now about the "camel soup" it was an old and, I sadly think, lost tradition of Milan. The evening of the 5th January ( my birtday) the people was used to leave a bowl of water and a little piece of bread near (not inside) the bowl for the Three Re Magi's camels. I had a far memory and to be sure I asked to my mom

It has been the word eat to amuse me, Roberto.

Have you take a look at It is CLOSED dicussion? Gimme your Opinion about.

Buon Natale anche a te Roberto e a tutta la tua famiglia.

I read the one article Sewin as I get the Sporting Rifles out here.
I taught him well? naaa seriousley it`s just nice to put something back and give others an oppurtunity.

Stefano, sent PM asking you to clarify 'is it CLOSED'discusssion .

Hunting club? Sure, that's what we Americans use those 30mm tube, 56mm objective, 3-pound, two foot-long European scopes for -- clubbing animals. They work much better for that purpose than as optical gunsights.